Alright, you have a Linux server connected to your television. You don’t want to have to plug a keyboard into it to play movies, right? You most likely have some other computer on the network you would like to launch mplayer from and then have the output to the television. Well thanks to xservers we can take care of this.
Log into your server and create a /usr/local/bin/mplaytv script like this:
#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.0 mplayer -fs -zoom "$1"
Make sure you make it executable.
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mplaytv
Now you can play something with the new script and the output will go to the xserver attached to the TV.
Make sure you run the mplaytv script as the user logged into the xsession on the server, or you will get xsession errors.
mplaytv Some_Video.avi
You should see some activity in your shell and mplayer controls are attached to that shell, So keyboard shortcuts also work remotely.
Many have asked me “What concerts are coming up in Steamboat”. I don’t know why they ask me but they do. I felt enough motivation to write a scraper so now there is a new page on the ole phrog blog Steamboat Concert Dates. Enjoy.
This election was easy for me to decide. I run my own servers on the internet and I like being able to do as much with them as I can. I run web servers, email, DNS, IRC, forums, remailer, nymserver, streaming audio! torrent trackers! Oh My! Needless to say, the shit would hit the fan around here if my internet service provider started blocking me from doing what I do with my internet connection. Some ISP’s have already begun to do so.
Well, Obama was the only candidate on board with my concerns so he won my vote easily . Today I am feeling a bit reassured that I made the right decision. Obama started a new way for the government to keep in touch with us, change.gov. Within two days of the election Obama’s transition team laid out his science and technology agenda. I must admit, I am somewhat impressed.
At a speech at google headquarters Obama raised the issue.
I have been working hard on gazelle.etree.org. If you are one of my readers and would like to help out by being on our beta team I would be more that happy to invite you. leave a comment.
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